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nt also contains the rapidly increasing herbarium of plants cul- 
tivated in the Garden. The smaller room now contains the 
ulky specimens of fungi belonging to the main herbarium. 
joining the smaller store room is the curator’s office. Directly 
west of the curator’s office and the larger store room is the large 
taxonomic laboratory with a floor space of 1,415 square feet. 
is room is illuminated ed windows facing ne north and also 
receives borrowed light from the hallway on the south; it con- 
nects with the herbarium . means of a small hall and the main 
hall. 
These rooms are provided with both laboratory and _ toilet 
sinks, and are artificially lighted with gas; the gas-fixtures are 
provided with fittings for electric lighting which may be supplied 
in the future. The furniture consists of small oak laboratory 
ables, chairs, stands of open shelves and oak cases with doors 
justable shelves 
The preparation room in the basement is directly east of the 
center of the building; its floor covers an area of 3,818 square 
feet. Here all the mounting and ies of specimens for 
the herbarium and museum is Here too, is the printing 
equipment, where labels for ie een and museums are 
struck off. 
J. K. SMart. 
THE ELLIS COLLECTION OF FUNGI. 
The Garden has just obtained the residual collection of fungi 
made by Mr. J. B. Ellis, of Newfield, New Jersey, supplementing 
the original collection purchased in 1896. The entire collection 
numbers about 80,000 specimens and represents the material col- 
lected by Mr. Ellis during the past forty years together with an 
immense amount of material sent him from every part of the 
country, and containing the original types of all the species de- 
scribed either by him alone or by others with whom his name is 
associated. Mr. Ellis is a graduate of Union College and was 
originally from Potsdam, N. Y., but removed early to Newfield, 
N. J., thirty miles southeast of Philadelphia, where in the quiet 
